Attractions of Osmoloda

The metropolitan residence "Cedar Chambers" (Kedrovi Palaty), also known as "Dacha Andrey Sheptytskyi", is a recreational complex in the Pidlyute tract on the Limnytsya River, which is considered the cleanest in Europe.

In 1892, the Lviv Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sylvester Sembratovych, bought 6 hectares of land on the slopes of Mount Lyuta, next to healing hydrogen sulfide springs, and built a summer metropolitan residence there.

The house got the name "Cedar Chambers" because it was built from cedars that still grow in this area.

Three pools were equipped under the symbolic names of Sylvester, Andriy and Titus. Aristocrats from all over Austria-Hungary, and later Poland, came to the Pidlyute tract for rest and treatment.

During the First World War, the residence burned down, but it was soon restored by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi. 5 houses were built, in which up to 400 people could live at the same time. Opposite the residence was a stone grotto on which a cross rose.

In Soviet times, the dacha was used by the party elite as a hunting lodge.

In 1999, the "Cedar Chambers" were returned to the Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Currently, it is the diocesan retreat center "Urochyshche Pidlyute".